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Father’s Day Fantastic Buffet at La Cuisine
1,200 Pesos, VAT Included (Kids 12 and below 500 pesos)

Salad Station/Cold

Grapefruit Salad with Fresh Crabmeat and Tuna
Tomate and Mozarella Mille Feuille
Grilled Provencal Vegetables with Pesto
Rice Salad al Indienne
Mini Tomato and Basil Quiches & Quiche Lorraine
Strawberry Gazpacho
Fresh Tabouleh Salad

Main Course

Roast Crown of Pork with Apple Sauce
USDA Prime Rib Roast with Spinach Gratin with Three Sauces (Pepper Sauce,Béarnaise, Roquefort)
Selection of Home Made Artisanal Breads

Desserts

Strawberry Treacle
Mango Pavlovas
Choux Puffs with Orange Curd
Hazelnut Meringue Cake with Chocolate Cinnamon Mousse

Book now! (02) 501 52 02 or paseo@lacuisine.ph
La Cuisine Francaise, G/F Paseo Parkview Condominium, Sedeno corner San Agustin, Salcedo Village, Makati.

Photo: The very accommodating staff of La Cuisine. Today I ordered a spicy chorizo (merguez) sandwich. There was no chorizo in the kitchen. “But I have to have the spicy chorizo,” I whined. So they sent someone to their booth at the Salcedo weekend market to get the chorizo. That’s service.

Saffy says: Moomooooooooooooooooooo

Your horror stories were so effective that we decided to pick not one but five winners and give each of them an Alexandra Trese comic book.

The winners are:

#17 by enajie, who recorded herself singing, then heard someone wailing in the background during playback.

#16 by swanoepel, the Coco Martin ex-fan who went to a nearly empty theatre to watch Serbis and suddenly sensed a crowd of people.

#10 by overnitesensation, where the ghosts sang along with the choir.

#15 by gilbertjohngarcia, where the little girl said, Hindi ka makagalaw ano?

#26 by irvin mclovin, the one about the Indian mango-giving ghost.

Congratulations for creeping us out! You may pick up your prizes any day starting Tuesday, 22 June 2010, at the Customer Service counter of National Bookstore in Power Plant, Rockwell. Uh-oh, I don’t have time to deliver the prizes before I leave. Sorry about that, I will notify you when the prizes are ready for pickup in July.

Until our next scary tale contest! Who is that standing behind you?

As long as we’re doing projects, here’s an accessory you can make yourself. On my birthday last year Leo gave me an old police whistle and a book by Queneau. I said, Thanks, I’ll read the Queneau, but I’m not joining the police. Leo said, No, I think the police whistle would make an interesting pendant. All it needs is a chain.

So I’ve been looking for a chain to hang the police whistle on, but I couldn’t find any I liked. Plus silver-plated stuff gives me a rash (silver-plated earrings are fine since they’re not on the skin). Then I saw Ricky wearing a leather cord around his neck and I thought it was another one of his clever (nakakainis) accessories. It was an eyeglass holder necklace with a silver hoop to hang your glasses from. I said, Is that another Margiela thingy, and he said, No, it’s from True Value.

So I visited True Value and voila, I have my necklace.

The eyeglass holder necklace is P399 at True Value. You can hang anything on it—action figures, your cat’s photo in a frame, or your actual eyeglasses.

Are you tired of your sneakers? Do you feel like you’re wearing a uniform? You could go out and buy a new pair of sneakers, but other people will be wearing the exact same shoes, and after a while you will tire of them, too.

You could take your existing sneakers and deface them.

You will need: one pair of patent leather sneakers, a soldering iron, and acrylic paint. Best to have a design in mind.

Now do this.

These sneakers were defaced by Rickyv.

Chances of you running into someone with the exact same pair of shoes: Zero. And when you get tired of them, you can deface them again.

The mystery of Caravaggio’s death solved at last – painting killed him. Remains found in Tuscany are likely to be the artist’s, proving that lead poisoning was one cause of his death 400 years ago.

He killed to paint, then painting killed him. Of course.

Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes

One of my favorite movies of all time begins and ends on a ship.

The Lady Eve, written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.

So I get a special kick out of my next trip: a cruise on the Norwegian Epic. Befuddled herpetologist returning from a year in the Amazon optional (You have to see the movie).

This is the ship.

The Norwegian Epic of the Norwegian Cruise Lines, represented in the Philippines by Star Cruises.

Yes, these are renderings. We can compare them with the photos I will take on the cruise.

This is the deck.

This is a stateroom.

This is a theatre.

This is the featured entertainment.

This is a restaurant.

After the cruise, London and Wimbledon! I’m bringing a white sweater.